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- From: cjp8b@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Penington)
- Subject: Re: Are you a Young Transplant?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.062734.4807@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <1992Nov15.210121.18247@bnlux1.bnl.gov> <74341@apple.apple.COM>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:27:34 GMT
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- In article <74341@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
- >schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
- >
- >>how many of you
- >>reading this are recent college grads that have accepted that High
- >>Paying Job that you went to school for in the first place that is
- >>located somewhere other than where you were either (a)raised,
- >>(b)schooled, or (c)would like to be? Have you become involved with
- >>someone that you met since you moved to said location?
-
- >The point of this is, unless you really love your job, don't stay somewhere
- >you don't like, any longer than necessary. It can affect you in subtle ways.
- >For example, I'm convinced that if you don't like where you live, it can be
- >harder to get involved with someone because you may subconsciously have one
- >foot already out the door, and may be trying to avoid the possibility of
- >being tied down to that place.
-
- Gee Stef, were you thinking of me when you wrote this ? :) It's a
- pretty good description of what I think I've been doing to myself for
- the last year or two. When you figure to leave the country
- lots of people lose interest pretty quickly. Now I have a job lined up
- to start in 6 months in Australia I've given up hope of finding anyone
- here (though a satisfying relationship here would make a huge
- difference - might even convince me to stay here). It'll be a relief
- to live in a real city again!
-
- Some of what Gary was asking sounds very similar to my grad school
- experience. In my case I find myself in a completely different place
- from where I was raised, acquired my values, got my undergraduate
- education and primary and secondary schooling and picked up this
- absurd curiosity about how things work and how they got that way.
- I have had involvements although only two of them endured for more
- than a few weeks and both had pretty much wound down to platonic
- friendships by the time the SO's moved away. I still like these
- people, I still have contact with them, there's just not enough there
- to base a closer relationship on.
-
- The "two-body problem" also seems to pose quite a dilemma for many of
- the relationships I see. People who indulge in "ethereal" education
- (PhD programs and the like) often encounter limited employment
- markets. It can be a real problem to find a place where both partners
- can have satisfying employment. I think the (often unconscious)
- acknowledgement of this problem may be one of the factors which
- contributes to the isolation experienced by a lot of grad students.
- You're working so hard that the only people you see are people who it
- doesn't pay to get involved with, hence you don't get involved with
- anyone unless you can find the time to develop some outside
- interests....
-
- ...more irrational spoutings at 1:30 am!
-
- Chris
-
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